crazy question about html form

[spdwrench]

My site has an html form on the left side if the pages.

 

this is a quicksearch box for members it has a bunch of numbers 18 19 20 21 22 23 etc

 

when google indexes my pages it gets a bunch of numbers as being the first of the content which is very poor for the pages to show up corectly on the search

 

is there a way to hide a form on the html page so the robot or crawler will ignore this particular form and continue reading the rest of the page?

 

I know it's a long shot.. but the design looks good the way it is so I dont want to change it

 

thanks for any help

 

Paul

[ToonMariner]

perhaps you should use some css to absolutley position your blocks of content absolutley - then you could have the fomr afte the page content in the html but still where it is when viewed in a browser.

[spdwrench]

sounds like the right idea but I have not done much with css.

 

instead I flipped the layout...

 

if I dont have any complaints about the appearance I will run it like that for a while because im also curious on the effect it will have on ad clicks.

 

how hard would it be to swap this the way you mentioned?

 

Paul

[ToonMariner]

denpends on how well structured your html/php is - if these elements can be shifted easily then it will be faily straight forward - otherwise it will be a pig!

[TheFilmGod]

You should do some reading on how google and other search engines index pages. Take a google result page:

 

PHP and HTML finding the right code for your

This is a brief explanation of the title... Yes yes, did you index

me correctly?

 

Now "PHP and HTML finding the right code for you" is this html snippet:

 

<title>blah blah blah</title>

 

And "This is a brief explanation of the title" is:

 

<meta name="Description" content="blah blah blah" />

 

after the ... google takes over.

 

Of course sometimes you don't influence over google, because a user's search keywords don't compare to the things you wrote.